• Job Description

  Req#: 108592

  End Date

  Tuesday 27 February 2024

  Salary Range

  £66,861 - £100,292

  
  

  We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

  Agile Working Options

  Hybrid Working

  Job Description Summary

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  Job Description

  Software Engineer: Workday System (x2 positions)

  Lloyds Banking Group

  Location: Halifax, Leeds or Manchester - 2 days per week in the office and the rest from home

  Salary & Benefits: £68,202 to £83,358 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

  Flexibility Works: We’re very flexible employers, offering a range of options to suit your lifestyle including flexible hours, flex-summer holidays, flex-bank holidays, great parental support and a real focus on finding work-life balance.

  About us;

  If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

  We’re the Workday Engineering Team! Our Workday Engineering chapter forms part of the People Platform and is an integral part of the People & Places function, charged with creating the conditions for our colleagues to be successful in delivering the Group’s strategy.

  Our team sits at the heart of Workday interaction, and we continually design, build and enhance complex integrations to expose, transform and ingest People data for an extensive variety of internal and external systems, using a wide variety of API patterns. We collaborate with multiple business customers throughout LBG and have an ever-growing portfolio of use cases ready and waiting for us.

  What will you focus on in this role?

  You’ll use your understanding and expertise to assist with designing, building and unit testing code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect.

  Starting with reviewing relevant problem statements, you’ll work with the Chapter Lead to develop & implement relevant data solutions, then act as subject matter expert relating to those solutions post development.

  Successful candidates will be trained in the Workday development toolset following a proven educational journey.

  Specific activities might include;

  • Design and develop integrations & consumer grade custom Extend applications in Workday that meet business requirements.

  • Build IT solutions that adhere to engineering standards throughout the software development process.

  • Pair with other engineers to peer review code and user documentation in accordance with our development standards.

  • Making sure code is kept up to date and version controlled within a GITHUB repository.

  • Collaborate with architects, business customers and other engineers to produce application/design documentation.

  • Problem solving/debugging application production issues and minimise customer impact.

  • Mentor/coach other engineers to deliver high quality integrations and applications.

  What do we need to see in your application?

  We like people who come from diverse cultural & industry backgrounds, on your CV, we need to see the following to consider you for interview:

  • Career background working as mid to senior Software Engineer, with experience of the event driven UI programming (must).

  • Good awareness & understanding of Database design.

  • Technical skills in REST/SOAP APIs.

  • Good awareness of Integration/interface Patterns.

  • Strong Stakeholder management skills.

  • Good awareness of Encryption & Authentication considerations.

  • Comfortable acting as Subject Matter Expert on systems and collaboration with key business customer.

  In terms of personal qualities, we are looking for people with strong communication skills, a can-do attitude, team player, has a natural problem-solving approach and is willing to persevere, prepared to fail and overcome technical obstacles.

  About working for us

  Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

  We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

  We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

  And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

  We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

  Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

  We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

  We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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